Relational Database Job Trends in Berkshire

Relational Database
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Relational Database skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 98 100
Rank change year-on-year -25 +2 0
Permanent jobs citing Relational Database 15 44 46
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 0.42% 2.29% 1.95%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 8.11% 11.22% 11.39%
Number of salaries quoted 3 13 18
10th Percentile £78,000 - £40,434
25th Percentile £78,750 £28,000 £42,822
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £41,000 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year +95.12% -24.77% -5.30%
75th Percentile £87,500 - £63,750
90th Percentile £90,500 £56,600 £73,175
South East median annual salary £60,000 £41,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +46.34% -25.45% -6.78%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
Berkshire

Relational Database falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 185 392 404
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 5.23% 20.37% 17.17%
Number of salaries quoted 130 112 179
10th Percentile £37,500 £40,325 £42,500
25th Percentile £44,534 £50,000 £53,094
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £67,604 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.70% +0.15% +3.85%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £83,750 £95,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year - +0.92% -3.45%

Relational Database
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Relational Database relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Relational Database job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Relational Database
Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Relational Database.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Relational Database

Relational Database
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Relational Database within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 2 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading -43 12 - - 6
Bracknell - 2 £85,000 - 8
Wokingham - 1 £80,000 -
Relational Database
South East

Relational Database
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (20.00%) OpenStack
2 1 (6.67%) JBoss
2 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Fuse
Cloud Services
1 14 (93.33%) Amazon ECS
1 14 (93.33%) AWS
1 14 (93.33%) Serverless
2 12 (80.00%) Amazon EKS
3 8 (53.33%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (26.67%) Amazon S3
4 4 (26.67%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (6.67%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (6.67%) GitHub
6 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (80.00%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (46.67%) RDBMS
3 2 (13.33%) DynamoDB
4 1 (6.67%) MySQL
4 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
4 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 9 (60.00%) JUnit
3 8 (53.33%) JMeter
3 8 (53.33%) Mockito
4 4 (26.67%) Git
5 1 (6.67%) Claude Code
General
1 8 (53.33%) Public Sector
2 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Developer
2 7 (46.67%) Java Developer
3 6 (40.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (33.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 5 (33.33%) Java Engineer
4 5 (33.33%) Support Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) C# Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Data Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Data Migration Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Lead
5 1 (6.67%) Lead Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Migration Consultant
5 1 (6.67%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Software Team Leader
5 1 (6.67%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (80.00%) Spring
1 12 (80.00%) Spring Boot
2 10 (66.67%) Hibernate
2 10 (66.67%) Web Services
3 9 (60.00%) Apache Camel
3 9 (60.00%) REST
4 8 (53.33%) ActiveMQ
4 8 (53.33%) HTML
4 8 (53.33%) jQuery
4 8 (53.33%) WireMock
5 7 (46.67%) JSON
5 7 (46.67%) XML
6 5 (33.33%) Mustache
7 4 (26.67%) React
8 3 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (20.00%) Node.js
8 3 (20.00%) RESTful
9 2 (13.33%) .NET
9 2 (13.33%) JPA
9 2 (13.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (73.33%) Distributed Systems
2 7 (46.67%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (20.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (6.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) CI/CD
2 13 (86.67%) Microservices
3 12 (80.00%) Agile
3 12 (80.00%) TDD
4 9 (60.00%) BDD
4 9 (60.00%) Workflow
5 8 (53.33%) SDLC
6 7 (46.67%) Full-Stack Development
6 7 (46.67%) Process Management
7 6 (40.00%) Scrum
8 5 (33.33%) Biometrics
9 4 (26.67%) DevOps
9 4 (26.67%) Kanban
9 4 (26.67%) Mentoring
10 3 (20.00%) API Design
10 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 2 (13.33%) API Development
11 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
11 2 (13.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 2 (13.33%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 12 (80.00%) Java
2 10 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 10 (66.67%) Python
3 8 (53.33%) Shell Script
4 3 (20.00%) SQL
5 2 (13.33%) C#
6 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 12 (80.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (80.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (53.33%) Kibana
3 2 (13.33%) Ansible
4 1 (6.67%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (60.00%) Dynatrace
2 8 (53.33%) Splunk
3 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow